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Show Mmm jlliyiiihBpil- uaiq Tiling Hills t Is a mistake to suppose that bills never need to be tiled Where tho toll Is sandy It is of murso not neces sry to an to Ihe espenso of tiling them, that Is provided tho upper soil and the subsoil are both ot a porous nature Ue hive seen sandy lands that needed tiling, but they are not common The writer hat In mind a field where the lime In tha toll seems to have worked down Into tho aubsolt and formed in Impervious layer about aa hare, aa cement, through which the water could pass at any time of year In another field of this nature the drains had to bo blasted through a conglomerate formation for-mation of rotten rock Hut In most ruses the sandy soils will take tare of themselves, and only the clayey tolls on hillsides need much attention There nro numerous hillsides where the will Is of such texture that the wilier Is very stow In drying out In the spring nnd nt the ends of the outcropping lavcrs of clay the soil It so spring) that In some cases small living springs nre lound Tho bills have ono Hilvantage for tiling that the level plaint do not have and that Is a very decided fall It takes lees science In lay tiles that will carry water down a hill than to la) tll on a level or nearly level plain The use of drains whether tie or otherwise will in like many of our hillsides and slopes much earlier In the spring and prevent tho coming of the very earl) frosts In tho all. Fostalt Millets. Under tha mime of Jnpaneso millets several kinds of fostnll millet aro bo-log bo-log grow ii In this country Most of theso mill) la aro large In form and rletd heavily In seed nnd forage, un-ier un-ier favornhlo conditions, but do not withstand drouth well, and when n dry spell comes they yield to It in. stZcotwa r.iuu xm, quicker than do moat of our common millets. There have alto beta Introduced from Cores millets known as foxtail, which differ considerably from tho millets grown In thla country and also from thn Japancso Wo Illustrate tho Corcan millet This millet baa done well on tho grounds ot the Agrlcul turs! Department In Washington, but as yet little experimentation has bctn done with them In the country at a whole To Etcap Insects. On a farm of good alto the best way to keep tho destructive Insecta down la to rotate crops I find that In that way I can generally escapa the worst of tho Insect pests Where tbeS tame crop It planted on the same field year after )car tho Insects have a chance to establish themselves In. colonies. In the case of Iho plant lice on corn roots (hero Is little danger the first year bcrauso tha ants aro tho real mischief makers If Iho flold has been In oats tho previous year we, may expect to find no anta thcro, for' tho llco do not feed on tho roots of tho oat plant Not till corn has been on tha tamo lad for several yosrs will tho ant Invasion become aerlous,' and without the ant tnvnslon wo havo nothing to fear from tho llco The Iloaslau fly It quite easily stamped out by taking away bit food supply for one year, but wo mutt do thnt by depriving thlt Insect of nil of his mainstays In feeding wheat, r)o and baric) Not only must wo put the land Into something clso than those crops, but wo must bo cartful that In tho field planted to corn or potatoes no volunteer wheat, ryo or barley It permitted to grow Charles Com stock, Cais Co, Mich In Farmers' He-vlow. He-vlow. When to Cut Alfalfa. In order to get tho most out of tho alfalfa crop It should be cut when In full bloom, and this time, covers about a week. The man that hat a largo field to cut must keep In mind tho fact that he must begin carl) to get tho hay down be foro tho heads get too old. A good many experiments have been made to discover tho very best time for Ibe rutting In relation to tho digestibility and greatest amount of nutritive ton tents Too early cutting gives a good degree of digestibility, but too little nutriment, and late cutting gives largjn nutritive content but too little cIIim.' tlblllty |